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THE LAW 



FOB THE 



REDISTRICTJXG, MANAGEMENT 
AXD COXTROL 



OF THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



OF ALABAMA 



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ISSUED BY 

ISAAC W. HILL 

SUPEKINTENDKNT OF KDUCATION 



BIDS WANTED. 

Notice is hereby given 'that, on or before 
April 16. 1903, the Text-Bcok Commission of 
Alabama, created by the Act of the Legisla- 
ture approved March 4, 1903, will receive bids 
for contracts to furnish for use in the pub- 
lic schools of the State, for a period of five 
years and no longer, through two State de- 
posi'tcries and three agencies in each county, 
a uniform series of text-books and supple- 
mentary books embracing the subjects speci- 
fied in section one of said act, and in addition 
thereto the following branches of study: Vo- 
cal Music, Reading Charts, Draw- 
ing, English History, History of 
France, General History, History of 
American Li'terature, History of Eng- 
lish Literature, EJementary Chemistry, 
Elementary Botany. Said bids shall be seal- 
ed and deposited with the Secretary of State, 
Montgomery, Alabama, and shall con. 
form in all respects to the pre- 
visions set forth in the act aforesaid. Each 
bidder will be required to deposit with the 
Treasurer of the State $500 for each branch 
of Study upon which a bid is offered, the 
sum of such deposits for all branches not 
to exceed $2,500, and such deposits shall be 
forfeited to the State if the bidder shall fail 
to execute his proposed contract on or be- 
fore July 1, 1903. Bids must state specifi- 
cally and definitely the price at which the 
books will be furnished and must be accom- 
panied by one or more specimen copies of 
each book proposed to be furnished. 

I. W. HILL, Secretary, 
State Text Book Commission, 

Montgomery, Ala. 

COMPLIMENTS OF 

THE EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE, 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 



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No. 365.) AN ACT (S. 210. 

To provide for the redistricting of the public schools of 
the State and for the niaiiao'ement and control of the 
same. 

Section 1. — Be it enacted by the Legislature of Ala- 
bama, That township lines for sjchool purposes, in the 
State of iVlabama, are hereby a]>olished ; provided noth- 
ing berein contained shall be so construed as to deprive 
the inhabitants of any township in this State of the six- 
teenth section or any fund arising therefrom, for the pur- 
pose of selling and leasing the sixteenth section school 
lands of the several townships as provided by law there 
shall be three township trustees in each township to be 
appointed as now pro^dded by law, the existing town- 
ship trustees shall continue in office until the expiration 
of their terms of office for the purpose of selling and 
leasing such lands. 

Sec. 2. — One of the county commissioners or a mem- 
ber of the County Board of Revenue to be selected by such 
commissioners or Board of Bevenue, the County Super- 
intendent of Education, and one of the County Survey- 
ors to be named by the court of County Commissioners, 
or Board of Bevenue, in each of the several counties of 
the State, are hereby created the county redistricting 
board, whose duties shall be as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 3. — That on the first Monday in March, 1904, tlie 
county redistricting boards provided for in section two 
of this act, shall meet at the court house in their respec- 
tive counties and organize by electing one of their num- 
ber as chairman. The County Superintendent of Educa- 
tion shall be, by virtue of his office, Secretary of sucli 



Board; a majority of tlie members of sucli board shall 
constitute a quorum. 

Sec. 4. — As soon as practicable after organization the 
said county redistricting boards shall lay out and divide 
their resipective counties into public school districts ac- 
cording to centres of population and natural barriers. 
Such districts shall be so arranged, if practicable, as to 
place a public school within two and one-half miles of 
each child within school age within such district; pro- 
vided that no district shall be formed which contains 
less than fifteen children in the school age. 

Sec. 5. — The work of establishing such districts as 
provided in this act, siiall be completed not later than 
June 1st, 1904, within ten days after said Avork shall 
have been completed, the said several County Kedistrict- 
ing Boards shall make, in writing, an accurate descrip- 
tion of each district so established, which descriptions 
the}^ shall deposit with the tTudge of Probate, whose duty 
it shall be to record the same in a substantially bound 
book, to be kept by him for this purpose in his office. 

Sec. 6. — On the first Saturdav in Julv, 1904, and 
each fourth year thereafter, the qualified electors of each 
public school district shall meet at the district public 
school house and elect from among the freeholders and 
householders who can read and write, residing in such 
districts, a local board of three district trustees whose 
duty shall be as hereinafter provided. Such district 
trustees shall hold office for the term of four years from 
the time of their election, and until their successors are 
elected and qualified. 

Sec. 7. — ^The trustees provided for in the last preced- 
ing section shall within ten days after their election meet 
at the public school district school house, or some place 
more convenient to all concerned, and shall organize, by 



electing one of their number, chairman and another sec- 
retary. 

Sec. 8. — The District Trustees shall, during the month 
of August, 1904, and in every- even numbered year there- 
after, make an enumeration of all the children within 
school age in their respective districts in accordance with 
the requirements of section 3573 of the Code of 1896, 
and report the same as herein provided to the County 
Superintendent of Education, who also shall, by the 15th 
day of said month, make a Avritten report of such enu- 
meration by numbered districts to the State Superin- 
tendent of Education, and it shall be the duty of the 
County Superinitendent of Education to enumerate or 
cause to be enumerated all the children of school age in 
any township or townships in his county in which the 
sixteenth section interest exceeds the amount of per 
capita apportionment from the general fund, and report 
the same to the office of the State Superintendent of 
Education. 

Sec. 9. — It shall be the duty of the said District Trus- 
tees to care for all school property, emj)loy teachers for 
their school districts, such employment to be subject 
to the approval of the County Board of Education, to 
visit the schools within their respectice districts, observe 
the management of the same, to make quarterly reports 
of the condition of such school to the County Superin- 
tendent of Education and to perform such other duties 
as may be required by the County Board of Education 
hereinafter provided for. 

Sec. 10. — The chairman of the several Boards of Dis- 
trict Trustees shall meet at the court house in their re- 
spective counties in the second Saturday in August after 
their election and evei'y four years thereafter, and shall 
elect four Countv School trustees, who shall hold 



office for the term of four years from the date of their 
election and until their successors are elected and quali- 
fied. Before entering upon the duties of office, they 
shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Constitu- 
tion of the State. The County Superintendent of Educa- 
tion and said four County Trustees shall constitute the 
County Board of Education within their respective coun- 
ties. The County Superintendeut of Education shall be 
the Chief Executive Officer of said County Boards of Ed- 
ucation, and shall see ithat all the rules, regulations and 
orders of said County Boards are enforced; provided, 
however, that no County Trustee shall, during his term 
of office, be eligible to election as a District Trustee. 

Sec. 11. — That said County Board of Education shall 
have entire control of the public schools within their re- 
spective counties, unless otherwise provided by law. They 
shall make rules and regulations for the government of 
the schools, see that teachers perform their duties, and 
exercise such powers, consistent with the law, as in their 
judgment Avill best subserve the cause of education. The 
said Board shall have the right to acquire, purchase, 
lease, receive, hold, transmit and convey the title to real 
and personal property for school purposes. Said board 
of education shall by and in the name of the County 
Board of Education sue and be sued, contract and be 
contracted with; all contracts to be made after resolu- 
tion adopted by said Board and spread on its minutes 
and signed by the President and Secretary, and all pro- 
cess shall be executed on the Secretary of said Board, 

Sec. 12. — Whenever there shall have been established 
in any school district, a system of graded schools free 
to the children of school age, within such district for a 
period of not less than eight months in each year, the 
electors of such districts may increase the number of the 



District Trustees to five and assume entire control of the 
public schools therein; provided, the trustees of sucli dis- 
tricts shall make all reports required by law to the 
County Board of Education. 

Sec. 18. — Each member of the County Kedistricting 
Boards named in section two of this act shall receive two 
dollars a day for each day in which he is actually em- 
ployed in forming school districts under this act to be 
paid out of the County Treasury upon the written re- 
quisition of the President and Secretary of such Board ; 
provided, that no member of said board shall receive pay 
for more than fifteen day?-, and provided, further, that 
the County Superintendent of Education shall receive 
no pay for serving on said board. 

Sec. 14. — Each of the four members of the County 
Board of Education, provided for in Section 10 of this 
act shall receive from the public school funds of the 
county, to be disbursed by the. County Superintendent of 
Education two dollars a day for each day's work de- 
voted by him to the public schools; provided, he shaJi 
not receive pay for more than ten days in any one year. 
The County Superintendent of Education shall appor- 
tion among the several school districts the amouni of 
compensation to be paid to the members of the County 
Board of Education and account for the same in lik::- 
manner as provided for the compensation paid to teach- 
ers in such districts. 

Sec. 15. — The County Superintendents of Education 
shall receive and, by and with the advice and consent of 
the County Board of Education and under its direction 
shall disburse all moneys appropriated and provided by 
law, or that may hereafter be provided for by law, either 
general or special, for the support of any and all public 
schools within their respective counties. For their cr)m- 



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pensation, tliev shall receive four per centum on all State 
public moneys legally disbursed by them, not to ex(,'o^'d 
the sum of eighteen hundred dollars for an^^ ca bandar 
year. For all moneys received and disbursed hy tliem, 
tlie County Superintendents shall account to the State 
Superintendent of Education, as now provided by law. 

Sec. 16. — The lines and boundaries of any school dis- 
trict may be changed by a vote of a majority of the 
County Board of Education, thirty days after due notice 
shall have been given by such board to the school trus- 
tees, and the people in the territory to be affected by the 
change and such change may add to or take from any 
district composed of an incorporated city or toAvn such 
contiguous territory as such board may deem best; no- 
tice of the proposed change being given by three weekly 
publications in a neAvspaper published in said county^ 
and in three public places by posting noticesi. 

Sec. 17. — That any vacancy on the County Board of 
Education or on any District Board of Tl^ustees, shall *^e 
fdled for the unexpired term by the remaining members 
on said Board of Education or Board of Trustees as the 
case may be. 

Sec. 18. — This bill shall not be held to affect any 
school contract or the conduct, manageiment and control 
of public schools during the school year ending Septem- 
ber 30th, 1904. 

Sec. 19. — The provisions of this act shall not apply 
t<; anv count V heretofore districted by law and which has 
a special levy from the county for the support of the 
public schools or to school districts heretofore estab- 
lished by law. 

Sec. 20. — That each incorporated city or town in the 
State is hereby created a separate school district. In all 
municipalities where there is a Board of Education the 



Poard shall have full charge and control of such sepa- 
rate school districts and shall have and exercise all the 
powers and authority conferred by law upon township 
trustees. In municipalities where there is no such Board 
of Education, the powers and duties of Trustees shall de- 
volve upon and be performed by the Mayor and Board 
of Aldermen, and all funds due such separate school 
districts shall be paid directly by the State Superintend- 
ent of Education to the Board of Education of such sep- 
arate school districts, or to the Mayor and Board of Ald- 
ermen where there is no such Board of Education, and 
provided that nothing in this act contained shall be con- 
strued as in conflict with section 12 of this act. 
Approved September 30, 1903. 



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